driving tips for dci

[tom-dci]

just wondering if anyone had any techniques to get these thing moving a little (without modding)??

or any general driving tips that i could try??

 

[DK-CTR]

Seat Belt

Start engine

Engage 1st gear

Check mirrors

And your off

Sorry mate couldnt resist

 

[Mondial172]

Dont bother blasting a diesel right to the red line. Try a bit of short shifting.

Not sure how the DCi clio behaves but thats the best way in our Xantia at work.

 

[tom-dci]

no, that was fair game. left myself wide open to that one!!

dodgy thing about clio diesels.....it dont have a red line!!! lol!! the bars on the revs get a bit thicker around 5000 but it never goes that far anyway.

recently ive started to go to 4000 before changing and that seems to have helped a lot, although it tends to drop back in a little high in the revs for my liking (think im missing a lot of the torque by doing that).

only an hour and a half till i can experiment though!!

 

[Scribbler]

its a diesel shouldnt it be pulling agricultural eqipment

 

[stuartturrell]

hahaha i like it, agricultural eqipment

 

[edde]

Max power should be able 4k ( but is usually about 3.5k) so changing up at 4k will maximise acceleration.

I usually rev to about 2~2.5k and chnage up or rev it to 4k and jusmp a gear or two.

Best keep the revs around 2.2k or so as thats where max torque is.